Erich Wiedemann (born 1942) is a German journalist and editor (at the Hamburg desk) for the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel,[1] where he began as a reporter in 1988.[2] For the FDP, he was also a member of the city council of Jesteburg and a representative for the Harburg district.[1]
Wiedemann has written on German minorities in other European countries[3] and on socio-economic developments in post-World War II Germany.[4] A Spiegel article on the Netherlands from 1994, in which Wiedemann argued that the country had lost its reputation for tolerance and suffered an identity crisis, caused a stir among the Dutch: Wiedemann reiterated a number of cliches about the Dutch, leading to a backlash from Dutch newspaper writers and critics.[5][6][7] The accompanying image by Sebastian Krüger depicted Frau Antje, a Dutch character used to promote cheese and other export articles, with a joint in her mouth, heroin syringes in her arm, and a case of Heineken, in a landscape of dirty tulips and polluting smokestacks.[8]
His articles have also appeared in translation in Salon, through an arrangement with Der Spiegel.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b "Bis über den Tod hinaus". Spiegel Online (in German). 1 January 1999. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Wiedemann, Erich (1 January 1998). "Wat soll dä Zoff?". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Röger, Maren (2009). "News Media and Historical Remembrance: Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines". In Errl, Astrid; Rigney, Ann (eds.). Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 187–204. ISBN 9783110204445. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Poore, Carol (2000). The Bonds of Labor: German Journeys to the Working World, 1890-1990. Wayne State UP. pp. 281 n.119. ISBN 9780814328972.
- ^ Elpers, Sophie (2006). "Frau Antje--Die (Käse-)Botschafterin? Inhalte und Funktionen der Kunstfigur". Grenzen und Differenzen (in German). Leipziger Universitätsverlag. pp. 333–48. ISBN 9783865830883.
- ^ Ephimenco, Sylvain (2 May 2009). "Geef me mijn fiets terug!". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Krumm, Christian (2010). Johan Huizinga, Deutschland und die Deutschen (in German). Waxmann. p. 14. ISBN 9783830974468.
- ^ Elpers, Sophie (2009). Hollandser dan Kaas: De geschiedenis van Frau Antje (in Dutch). Amsterdam UP. pp. 54–56. ISBN 9789089640994.
- ^ Zand, Bernhard; Georg Mascolo; Erich Wiedemann (19 October 2005). "Judgment day for Saddam". Salon. Retrieved 15 July 2014.